The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases
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Author: Frank B. Cross; Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Chapter 21, Problem 1IS
Summary Introduction
Case summary:The person R(supervisor) of the company SS told the person T (an employee) to have an intercourse with her in order to keep his job.
To find: The basis of sexual harassment.
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